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What The Net is Doing to You

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the one-step-closer-to-the-morlocks dept.

Bart writes "The BBC reports One of the world's first research centres dedicated to studying the social, political and economic effects of the net has opened in Oxford" I've offered to trade CowboyNeal to them as a research subject for a case of beer. I think studying the effects of the internet on him will save lives. See? Someone is thinking of the children.

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  1. Effects of the Net by deadhammer · · Score: 5, Funny

    The Net has great and ponderous effects, such as creating studies to show the great and ponderous effects of the net.

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    I'll be honest, we're throwing science against the wall to see what sticks. -Cave Johnson
  2. well... by chegosaurus · · Score: 5, Funny

    It broadens the mind by introducing you to subgenres of pr0n that you never knew existed.

  3. Me and the Net by X!0mbarg · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well, I got so see more Pr0n than I ever imagined. Saw stuff that made me want to wash my eyes with liquid drano. Downloaded a Lot of useless crap. Became addicted to Online Comics. Made a handful of new friends. Got myself an e-mail account through a friend in Oslo. Learned that there are a Lot of ways to cheat...

    Search engines are my friends!

    So much data. So little HD space...

  4. Re:Interesting, but how much will it proove? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
    if the internet changed fundamentally every six months, the average person wouldn't be able to understand it enough to use it.
    The average person doesn't understand the Internet enough to actually use it! Hell, most people have trouble with the difference between "Preview" and "Subm
  5. What the Net Did To Me by Skirwan · · Score: 5, Funny

    Mostly The Net just bored me. Sandra Bullock did the best she could with the script, but the entire thing was exactly the sort of paranoid FUD that makes people think they can get sick by using a computer with a virus.

    Now, The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes? Classic!

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    Damn the Emperor!

  6. Re:Normalization of Sexual 'Deviancy' by PygmyTrojan · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ahhh yes, thanks internet, for letting me now that it's okay to take a crap in my girlfriend's mouth.

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    Trying is the first step towards failure.